Bordallo keeps subcommittee role

Jan. 30, 2015
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Pacific Daily News

Guam's delegate has retained her position as ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Readiness in the new Republican-controlled Congress.

As the ranking member, Madeleine Bordallo is the senior Democrat of the Readiness Subcommittee, which has broad oversight of issues important to the U.S. military's Asia-Pacific rebalance and the plan to move about 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam, her office announced yesterday.

She was also appointed to the Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces.

The Subcommittee on Readiness is responsible for the single largest account within the Defense Department's budget, according to her office.

It oversees military readiness, training, logistics and maintenance issues and programs, military construction, installations and family housing issues, and any military base realignment-related process.

"The Readiness Subcommittee oversees many issues important to our community, including military construction, family housing, base closures, and realignments and related energy and environmental issues," Bordallo said.

The plan to build a Marine base on Guam and a live-fire training range complex is reaching a key milestone.

Gov. Eddie Calvo on Wednesday said he expects the Record of Decision, which gives the green light for the Marine relocation projects on Guam, in a few months.

If that happens, more military construction projects would begin, and the island's construction sector would get busy starting next year, he said.

The governor said Guam would see $13 billion worth of government and private-sector construction projects over the next 13 years.